Carbon offsetting has been a favorite climate change “solution” of countries and corporations that want to compensate for greenhouse gas emissions. But how does it work in practice? Here, we present an example from Africa, where tree-planting programs often have deep impacts on local communities, Indigenous groups, and women. This…
Africa is crying, our forest, our life! Get up, stand up for a collective struggle against the expansion of extractivism By Kwami Kpondzo The time has come to free Africa…
Originally published by Women4Biodiversity Guest article by Simone Lovera, Global Forest Coalition Women’s groups and many other actors have frequently highlighted the need for more coherence between climate and…
False solutions to climate change are being increasingly called out and rejected by communities around the world. Real solutions that are rights-based and gender-transformative do exist, and they are the…
Published in Mongabay by Simone Lovera on 26 October 2022 Photo by Abhaya Raj Josh/Mongabay: A member of the Bhimeshwori Sustainable Farming Group at her agroforestry farm in Kavre, Nepal…
Download this report as a PDF The Industrialisation of Forest-Based Bioenergy Production in Nepal and Its Impacts on Women and Other Forest-Dependent Peoples By Bhola Bhattarai Introduction…
The Global Forest Coalition is pleased to bring you a new report, to continue the important messaging around the International Day of Rural Women: A Gendered Perspective on the Proposed…
Report: The State of Industrial Livestock Farming in Asia and its Impacts on Deforestation and People’s Livelihoods Agriculture is by far the biggest driver of deforestation, according to the UN…
By the African Biomass Working Group, a member of Environmental Paper Network’s Forests, Climate and Biomass Working Group and Global Forest Coalition member organisations in Africa September 21 is the…
